Bus deregulation in Great Britain came into force on 26 October 1986, as part of the Transport Act 1985. The 'Buses' White Paper (under the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher) was the basis of the Transport Act 1985, which provided for the deregulation of local bus services in the whole of the United Kingdom except for Northern Ireland and Greater London. It proposed the abolition of road service licensing and allowed for the introduction of competition on local bus services for the first time since the 1930s.